Here are a few from a couple of days ago, when it got a bit too dark to take pictures at pne point so I had to use flash (forgive my sins, photography gods)
I explained that a type of #wasp was digging a burrow into which she would take a caterpillar, paralysed by her sting so the larva that hatched from the egg she would lay on it would have fresh food.
Ropalidia revolutionalis, the stick-nest brown paper wasp—because it builds long, thin nests out of a plant-pulp paper and is brown; descriptive names are helpful! This one's just starting her nest: each of those cells will soon hold an egg.
Scott Brick, the audiobook performer, pisses me off.
He has a commanding, sonorous, soothing voice, and can read without sounding like he's reading, but his cadence irks.
He speaks in an American WASPy preacher. Add this to his commanding audio-presence and it comes off...dictatorial.
No more Brick. Enderverse, Foundation, the list goes on. No more Brick! Give me queer, gender non-conforming black people. And pay them properly, dangit!
Here's my finished, coloured Procretevania exquisita drawing. This was a hatchet wasp from the Yixian Formation of China; hatchet wasps still exist today and specialise in parasitising cockroach ootheca. #FossilFriday#paleoart#wasp#insect#entomology
Great golden digger wasp (𝘚𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘹 𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘴) on a thistle, from July 2020.
This is one of my favorite insects. Not only are they gorgeous, they are peaceable if unprovoked and flit about on flowers like good ambassadors of waspdom.